Wilhelm Arcturus

If you're going to go that far, why not inject the whimsy of Studio Ghibli?

"Say Sorry Right Now!" Celebrity Pickleball Coach Confronts American Airlines Flight Attendant Who Caught Him Vaping In Lavatory - View from the Wing Self-proclaimed ‘celebrity pickleball coach’ Peter “Kobe” Nguyen turned getting caught vaping inflight into a viral spectacle when he filmed a heated exchange with the American Airlines flight attenda...

"Celebrity pickleball coach" is an absolutely cursed assemblage of words.

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It is Still Blaugust and Who Am I Even? I was re-listening to Jason Scott’s The Great Failure of Wikipedia presentation the other day… it is something of a nostalgic listen at this point when billionaires and corporations are…

It is Still Blaugust and Who Am I Even?
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A Black Ops Conduit Jumping a Blockade Runner Black ops battleships can carry along covert ops ships like that Crane with a conduit jump

A Black Ops Conduit Jumping a Blockade Runner
#EVEOnline, #Blaugust2025
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Yeah, we're in the consolidation phase. We don't want 200 services at $10-15 a month each, so we're going to get down to 4 at $100 a month each.

World of Warcraft Midnight Editions and Pricing Revealed with Early Access for Housing While we were all pretty much expecting to get an expansion announcement from Blizzard at Gamescon later this month (I even said that in my July month in review, mostly because there is no BlizzCon…

World of Warcraft Midnight Editions and Pricing Revealed with Early Access for Housing
#WorldOfWarcraft, #Blaugust2025
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Azariel Under Fire Visit the post for more.

Azariel Under Fire
#EVEOnline, #Blaugust2025
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The Washington Post ran headlines for multiple days when Bill Clinton getting a haircut on Air Force One delayed a commercial airliner for two minutes

Spinning Ishtars Around the Clock in EVE Online – Tales from the Forsaken Hub If there is one truth about null sec, it is that no matter the time, day or night, somebody out there is sitting in an Ishtar, semi-AFK, orbiting a mobile tractor unit, and letting their drones kil…

Spinning Ishtars Around the Clock in EVE Online - Tales from the Forsaken Hub
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Cape buffalo taking care of business.

Also, do we even care about "millionaires" anymore? Talking about them feels very out of date in a Dr. Evil sort of way. Can we make sure they are bad people and not just somebody who bought a house in San Jose in the 90s?

Redeemer at a Minmatar Gate The bright orange glow of the gate colors the whole scene

Redeemer at a Minmatar Gate
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

The NYT is clearly coming for you

Running Blaugust on a Second Blog I have two blogs, something usually overlooked no matter how often I mention it.  As I have generally put it, this is the “words” blog, and that other blog EVE Online Pictures. Unlike t…

Running Blaugust on a Second Blog
#Blaugust2025
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Mercenary Den Cleanup Hostiles stick these on your Skyhooks to siphon material and you need to blow them up to get rid of them. EVE Uni has a whole guide to them.

Mercenary Den Cleanup
#EVEOnline, #Blaugust2025
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Warning: Bluesky Account Scammer This past weekend, I had a brush with a scammer on Bluesky who had compromised a mutual’s account.

A cautionary tale about my brush with an account scammer on Bluesky - here's the kind of things they'll say to you to try to steal your Bsky account!

Be careful out there!

#Blog #Blogging #Blaugust #Blaugust2025

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Stars Reach Check-in Summer 2025 It has been a bit since I peeked in on Stars Reach.  There is always the problem of the windows of availability needing to correspond with my own free time. I have seen some headlines about changes…

Stars Reach Check-in Summer 2025
#Blaugust2025
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Black Ops Jumping off of a Sotiyo A target is out there waiting to be dropped on

Black Ops Jumping off of a Sotiyo
#EVEOnline, #Blaugust2025
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TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Thirty Sees First Place in Contention and Disappointment in The Shire Last week did not deliver much in the way of changes on the scoreboard.  Two titles launched, but only one managed to get a score and the other did not stir the pot all that much. Week 30 has tried…

TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Thirty Sees First Place in Contention and Disappointment in The Shire
#FantasyCriticLeague, #Blaugust2025
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Another POCO Bash Player owned customs officers… need to blow em up to put down a Skyhook now

Another POCO Bash
#EVEOnline, ##Blaugust, #Blaugust2025
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The Station Memorial in C-J6MT All the original null sec stations have a memorial copy in space to show where they were

The Station Memorial in C-J6MT
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Welcome to Blaugust! Oh No! Now What? I mean, it is Blaugust… so blog on I guess!  But are you prepared to tackle a whole 31 days of blogging?  I’m not. Okay, you don’t actually HAVE to post every day of Blaugust.  Th…

Welcome to Blaugust! Oh No! Now What?
#Blaugust2025
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Harpies on Target We undock to chase people away… sometimes we catch them

Harpies on Target
#EVEOnline, #Blaugust2025
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July 2025 in Review The Site WordPress.com hasn’t changed up anything dramatically this month.  Nothing here to get angry about.  They have still broken things however, so there is still some minor disappointmen…

July 2025 in Review
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Having to listen to other people talk is torture to him.

Happy EVE Is Dying Day - 2025 Edition

Happy EVE is Dying Day! nosygamer.blogspot.com/2025/07/happ...

LOTRO 32-bit Servers on 30 Day Notice even as 64-bit Servers Struggle with Lag By the time this post goes live you will no longer be able to create new characters on the older, 32-bit servers of Lord of the Rings Online.  It feels like SSG should have done that when they anno…

LOTRO 32-bit Servers on 30 Day Notice even as 64-bit Servers Struggle with Lag
#LOTRO
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Arazu with a Cyno Lit The main use of force recon ships most days of the week

Arazu with a Cyno Lit
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